Category: Primary 1

What a busy Fitness Week we have had in P1A!

On Monday morning we had a golf session from The Stephen Gallacher Foundation. We learned how to hold the golf club correctly and practised swinging the club to hit the ball. We worked well together in our teams to get the ball into the target. On Tuesday morning we had a football session from Jordan. We played different games to practise our dribbling skills and then we had turns at trying to kick the ball into the net. We really enjoyed our golf and football sessions!

This week we were revising the digraphs ‘oi’ and ‘oy’. We looked for ‘oy’ words with magnifying glasses, made ‘oi’ words with play dough, wrote ‘oi’ and ‘oy’ sentences on our whiteboards, played games to revise our digraphs on Education City and practised writing ‘oi’ and ‘oy’ words to match pictures.

For writing this week we looked at writing instructions. Since it was Fitness Week, we focused on Food and Health and we wrote instructions on how to wash our hands. We watched a video about hand washing and we washed our own hands and discussed the main steps. Miss Harrison showed us how to use numbers to order our steps. Our instructions were very clear and easy to follow.

In Numeracy and Mathematics this week we learned subtraction facts for the number 6. We played Subtraction Smash and Subtraction Bowling, made our own subtraction facts for 6 on our whiteboards and played Subtraction Snakes and Ladders. We also completed an activity in our workbooks on subtraction facts for 6.

This week we also started to learn about fractions. We looked at sharing a pizza into halves and quarters and we talked about how the smaller parts had to be equal. We made pizzas with different toppings on each half, used our play dough to make the last half or quarter of cakes, found and coloured different fractions of shapes and played ‘Half Your Cake and Eat It’ on Education City.

As part of Fitness Week, we looked at the main food groups. We learned that the main food groups are Fruit and Vegetables, Carbohydrates, Protein, Milk and Dairy Products and Fats and Sugars. We looked at photographs of each food group and identified foods that belonged in each group. We played ‘Make a balanced plate’ where you had to put the food in the right food group, made our own healthy eating plates and drew pictures of our favourite food in each food group.

On Thursday this week we made smoothies. We had lots of ingredients to pick from such as pineapple, mango, blueberries, bananas, oranges, apples, raspberries and apple and orange juice. We picked the ingredients we wanted in our smoothies and then Miss Harrison blended them together. We got to try our smoothies and we thought that they were delicious!

The highlight of our week was Sports Day. We took part in Potted Sports in the morning and completed activities such as hurdles, javelin throw, space hoppers, football, running, cheerleading and an obstacle course. Then we had class races in the afternoon.  We showed excellent teamwork and we were also kind, resilient and respectful.

Thank you very much for reading our blog post. We hope that you have a lovely weekend.

P1A, Miss Harrison and Miss Hardie 🙂

This week we have been revising the digraphs ‘igh’, ‘-y’, ‘oa’ and ‘ow’. We used our sounds to write words to match pictures, created ‘igh’ and ‘-y’ words using light bulbs, used magnifying glasses to spot ‘igh’ and ‘-y’ words, played Roll and Read, played ‘oa’ and ‘ow’ bingo and played ‘oa’ and ‘ow’ Snakes and Ladders. We also played games to revise our digraphs on our Promethean board and wrote sentences containing our sounds in our literacy jotters. This week we have continued to revise our common words. We used our magnetic letters to make common words, played a common words Snakes and Ladders and played a common words game on our IPad.

For writing this week we created our own stories which included our meerkats, Sergei or Bogdan and Mr Fluff. Miss Harrison read us ‘Castle Adventure’ and we discussed the adventure Gran took in the story. Then we looked at photographs of Sergei’s adventures in our local area. He went to Linlithgow Palace, Igloo, Tesco, the Union Canal, Linlithgow Leisure Centre and Taste! With our learning partner, we talked about what adventures Sergei might have in each setting. We invented our own story and took our chosen character on an adventure in our local area. We worked really hard on our stories and Miss Harrison and Miss Hardie loved reading all the stories!

In Maths and Numeracy this week we were learning ‘one less than’ and ‘two less than’, as well as revising subtracting all or none to 10. We played ‘Two Less Than’ on our Promethean board, worked out ‘one less than’ or ‘two less than’ on whiteboards, completed a space themed subtraction activity sheet and completed a subtraction page in our subtraction workbook.

On Thursday we also finished our money topic. We revised coin recognition and looked at using our coins to buy items and work out what change we would get. We played coin throw with hoops to practise our addition and subtraction skills, we used coins to buy items in a shop and get change, played ‘Coin Game’ on our Promethean board and completed a coin addition and subtraction activity in our money workbooks.

This week we have been learning about people who help us at school. We looked at who the different people that help us at school are and talked about some of their roles and responsibilities. We learned about teachers, pupil support workers, cooks, playground supervisors, office people, lollipop people, janitors and cleaners. With our learning partners, we selected someone who helps us at school and we used actions, gestures and movement to act out their responsibilities. The rest of the class had to guess who we were acting out!

Thank you for reading our blog post. We hope that you have a lovely weekend!

P1A, Miss Harrison and Miss Hardie 😊

This week we have been revising the digraphs ‘ee’, ‘ea’, ‘ai’ and ‘ay’. We highlighted ‘ee’ words in a comic strip, read and drew ‘ee’ captions and used magnifying glasses to spot ‘ee’ and ‘ea’ words. When revising ‘ai’ and ‘ay’, we made ‘ai’ and ‘ay’ words with play dough and used our sounds to write words to match pictures. We also played games to revise our digraphs on our Promethean board and wrote sentences containing our sounds in our literacy jotters. This week we have also been revising our common words. We used our magnetic letters to make common words, played a common words Snakes and Ladders game and played a common words game on our IPad.

For writing this week we made posters for the Transition Linlithgow competition. Transition Linlithgow are running a campaign to remove plastic straws from Linlithgow. We watched a clip from Blue Planet II on plastic pollution in the oceans and talked about how the plastic could have ended up in the water. We learned that the plastic was dangerous for animals that live in the ocean. We revised features of a poster and made sure that our posters included a title and a picture and that our posters were eye-catching. We worked really hard on our posters and were able to convey the message of the importance of not using straws in our posters too.

In Maths and Numeracy this week we were learning to link our addition and subtraction facts to 5. We used our addition and subtraction facts to colour a Space picture, we played ‘Mummy Sheep’ on Education City, created our own addition and subtraction sums on our whiteboards and completed an addition and subtraction cut and stick activity. We also completed some pages in our subtraction workbooks on linking addition and subtraction facts.

We also used our addition skills this week to add money amounts. We matched money amounts to coins, counted up coins and money totals in piggy banks, played a ‘Pick and Mix’ money game on our Promethean board and used our money fans to make different amounts.

This week we have continued to develop our mapping skills. We used our maps of our classroom that we made last week to find hidden objects in the classroom. We were able to read our maps and locate the objects.  Next we looked at our playground and worked with a partner to make a map of our playground. We included all of the main features and even included more detail than Miss Harrison’s playground map!

Thank you for reading our blog post. We hope that you have a lovely weekend.

P1A, Miss Harrison and Miss Hardie 🙂